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Steve James
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Steve James is an American film producer and director of several documentaries, including the award-winning Hoop Dreams and Stevie. He is also the director of the 1997 feature film Prefontaine. His newest film, The Interrupters, a portrayal of a year inside the lives of former gang members in Chicago who now intervene in violent conflicts, will be released in 2011 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is his sixth feature length collaboration with his long-time filmmaking home, the non-profit Chicago production studio Kartemquin Films, and is also his fifth feature to be accepted into the Sundance Film Festival.
He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, studying with Charles Harpole. His work, he tells journalist Robert K. Elder in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life, was strongly influenced by the film Harlan County, USA.
There’ve been many documentaries over the years that have powerfully impacted me. I think this one came along at the time when I was more interested in being a feature filmmaker than a documentary filmmaker. So it came along at the beginning of a process of moving from an interest in feature film to documentaries, and that’s where my career has taken me. It came along at the right time for me. It helped me see, “Ah, this is more what I want to do.”
Steve James also pulls influence from the original definition of the term cinema verite as it applies to the Rouch/Morin method of filmmaking. Just as with Rouch and Morin, the “people on camera and we in the audience are continually reminded that a film is being made, that we are watching a film.” We are reminded of this through James’ presence on screen as well as his cinematic editing techniques, in order to obtain, what he believes is a more accurate depiction of truth.
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Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 10.39 |
Birthday | 1958-03-08 |
Place of Birth | Hampton, Virginia, USA |
Also Known As |
![Hoop Dreams](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7qHwh3mFJs7ldwzGSWsBLmgecfj.jpg)
1994
![Hoop Dreams](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7qHwh3mFJs7ldwzGSWsBLmgecfj.jpg)
Hoop Dreams
7.628/289
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High Schoo...
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Hoop Dreams
![These Amazing Shadows](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/jiby8Ilxlmbhv6elIf0qRMuaDdd.jpg)
2011
![These Amazing Shadows](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/jiby8Ilxlmbhv6elIf0qRMuaDdd.jpg)
These Amazing Shadows
7.388/67
Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and inde...
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![Stevie](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/67TAylTWoysC2ffqVO18do0rwEE.jpg)
2002
![Stevie](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/67TAylTWoysC2ffqVO18do0rwEE.jpg)
Stevie
6.9/30
In 1995 Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an...
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![Heartbeats](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/AgsocxzosJ3yPRDuvj3h5kwoGy9.jpg)
2010
![Heartbeats](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/AgsocxzosJ3yPRDuvj3h5kwoGy9.jpg)
Heartbeats
7.124/996
Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Mo...
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![Life Itself](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/nK4cYTEO2eHLMgMII0Ux0kBOGhG.jpg)
2014
![Life Itself](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/nK4cYTEO2eHLMgMII0Ux0kBOGhG.jpg)
Life Itself
7.511/333
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor...
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![No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/n2jiU46PVwibNHAIt7aBbj4khHl.jpg)
2010
![No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/n2jiU46PVwibNHAIt7aBbj4khHl.jpg)
No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson
7/22
Director Steve James returns to his home town of Hampton, Virginia to tell the story of how the trial of a young basketball star left a city divided.
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